WFTDA Officiating Standardized Practices - Women's Flat Track ...
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Jammer Referee Designation<br />
How should Jammer Referees designate which<br />
jammer is assigned to a specific referee?<br />
Jammer Penalties<br />
Penalties called on jammers can be decisive. Who is<br />
responsible for calling these penalties?<br />
Jammer Duties and Point Recording<br />
Should the Jammer Referee ever take their eyes off<br />
the jammer to communicate points earned or for<br />
any other reason?<br />
Echoing Calling off the Jam<br />
What should the referees do when the jam is being<br />
called?<br />
Signaling a Skater Off Before the Jam Starts<br />
How should a referee direct a skater off the track<br />
for a penalty before the jam start whistle blows?<br />
Signaling Off the Last Blocker<br />
When a team has only one skater remaining on the<br />
track and that skater commits a penalty, what<br />
should a referee do since, per the rules, a team<br />
must have at least one blocker on the track at all<br />
times?<br />
Jammer Referees will wear color‐coded armbands or<br />
wristbands to designate the teams they are currently<br />
assigned to.<br />
Teams are responsible for maintaining their own<br />
appropriately colored set of bands and providing them for<br />
each bout.<br />
Jammer Referee helmet covers or other team indicators<br />
may be worn, but not to the exclusion of wristbands or<br />
armbands.<br />
Any referee can call major penalties on any skater.<br />
A Jammer Referee should be able to visually check with the<br />
Scorekeeper to verify the score reported. The Scorekeeper<br />
will visually signal back the exact score for the pass that the<br />
Jammer Referee signaled.<br />
This requires that the Scorekeeper maintain the ability to<br />
make eye contact instantaneously, and be signaling the<br />
score received until the referee verifies it.<br />
When calling off the jam, all referees will echo the end‐of‐<br />
jam whistles and hand signals. Jammer Referees should<br />
only use the hand signal if their jammer has called off the<br />
jam.<br />
In order to avoid confusion, a referee will signal the skater<br />
off the track following the standard procedure, but does<br />
not whistle.<br />
The referee calling the penalty should communicate the<br />
penalty to the last blocker as defined by the verbal cues<br />
document, in order to make sure the blocker remains on<br />
the track.<br />
A referee will then signal the skater to the penalty box<br />
when one of their teammates returns to the pack and a<br />
seat in the penalty box is available.<br />
© 2013 Women’s <strong>Flat</strong> <strong>Track</strong> Derby Association (<strong>WFTDA</strong>) <strong>WFTDA</strong> <strong>Officiating</strong> <strong>Standardized</strong> <strong>Practices</strong> Page 2